The entity

We spent a wonderful weekend with Sensei and Ana this weekend. Two good friends -- let's call them Dr. Teeth and Janice -- dropped by, and brought with them their newborn son, whom I shall now refer to as The Mighty Thor. It was with great trepidation that I held the child, thereby holding a baby for the first time in my life. I cannot get over how it makes me feel to hold this tiny life, on whom everything looks precious, from his glistening eyes to his near-microscopic fingernails. I am, indeed, in love.

I have played a metric buttload of games recently, and have yet to come across a lemon, other than the questionable variety of mini-games in Super Monkey Ball Banana Blitz. I wholeheartedly recommend everything I have played, from the offbeat rhythm game Elite Beat Agents to the mesmerizing DS remake of Final Fantasy III, from the multiple babies of Yoshi's Island 2 to the engrossing life sim Animal Crossing: Wild World. Oh, and Sensei showed me Zuma for the first time, which goes by Magnetica on the DS; might have to get that one, too.

Still no Wii, but I have long resolved not to camp out in front of stores or rely on stock boy rumors about early morning shipments. There will be a time when I will find a Wii, easy as pie, and that'll be when I get one. The PlayStation 3, on the other hand, sits like an unwanted kitten, in stacks upon stacks in the front of Best Buy, in the dusty corners of Wal-Mart's display cases, and I'm pretty sure I saw one bumming change on Beale Street, too. It appears that a major paradigm shift has taken place in the videogaming world, and it will be interesting to see its aftermath.

Interesting to me, mind.